What better way to keep that aging smartphone from feeling a little less “wise” in years, especially when compared with the new wave of smartphone hotness slated to drop in the coming months, than to give it a quick firmware update? To be fair, the Palm Treo 755p isn’t exactly old, but the Palm handset’s…
Palm posts $43 million Q4 loss despite increased revenue
This sounds all too familiar. Like Helio’s inability to turn a profit despite increasing their cash inflow, Palm has posted their Q4 earnings to disappointing effect. Palm highlighted the fact that their revenue was up 29%, based on smartphones sales of 968,000 units totaling $296.2 million. But, it wasn’t enough to hide the fact that…
Explore your locale with Travel Channel GO for iPhone
There’s nothing worse than being stuck at home asking that dreaded question of your significant other – “What should we do today/tonight?” To help ease the brain-racking search for new and fun things to do in your area, the Travel Channel is bringing their travel-expertise to the mobile space. Travel Channel GO is a web-app…
Cellspin brings mobile blogging to Palm OS! Audio, video, pictures, and text posting with ease
The ability to blog on-the-go is at once a blessing and a curse. Mobile blogging (or, moblogging, as it were) opens up so much in the way of productivity, but it also puts a kibosh on all “away from the computer” excuses. Double-edged swords like this are commonplace in the mobile space. With the Palm…
Rogers brings Palm Centro to Canada
Palm’s little bottom-line booster is going to be making its debut in Canada – on Rogers’ wireless network. With the Cobalt Blue-colored Palm Centro having just been launched on Verizon Wireless, Rogers has just taken the wraps off its own version of the popular, lightweight smartphone from Palm Rogers is slated to launch the Apple…
TouchLauncher makes your Palm OS device feel like an iPhone
TouchLauncher is a new Palm OS launcher app that will make your Treo or Centro (or even older Palm PDAs) look and feel more like an iPhone. Not only you can start application in the “iPhone manner,” but you can also scroll with your finger between multiple screens and get number of unread text messages…
Facebook goes native on Palm OS
If BlackBerry and iPhone users can have it, so can Palm OS based smartphone owners. I’m talking about the Facebook application, the one that allows you to poke and chat with your buddies while pretending to work. 😉 Facebook is now fully optimized for Palm OS. The native application allows users to: Send and receive…
Alltel’s Treo 755p gets ROM update
Palm has quietly released a new ROM update for the Treo 755p users on the Alltel network. We’re not sure what exactly is included with the new, version 1.03 of the firmware, but it seems like a stability-issue-fixing update. Palm only said: “This software update is for a phone reset issue that occurs under certain…
StyleTap’s Palm OS emulator goes beyond experimental prototype; Officially coming to iPhone, iPod Touch
While we’re still waiting for the next-gen version of the Palm OS (Nova), you may want to use some of the older Palm OS apps on other, non-Palm OS powered devices. Thanks to StyleTap’s Palm OS emulators you can do that on various platforms. Back in February, we saw they’re thinking about porting their work…
Palm CEO Ed Colligan talks up Linux-based Palm OS 2.0 – Nova
If you ask us, we’re done listening to Palm just talking about their Palm OS 2.0. We want to see the Linux-based revamp to the so-old-it’s-senile Palm OS before Palm’s mobile platform fades from our radar. In an effort to keep us all interested in Palm’s overhauled mobile OS, the company’s CEO, Ed Colligan, talked…